Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:35:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@devrycols.edu> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: jm7996@devrycols.edu, belarbi@worldnet.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ! A question around supported configuration Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809271733120.501-100000@insomnia.local.net> In-Reply-To: <19980927203719.A13702@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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> James A. Mutter wrote: > > > 1. Yes. However I would stay as far away from a Cyrix processor as > > humanly possible if I were you. > > What's wrong with them? (Something more helpful than ``they're crap'' > would be nice too :-) > They floating point performance is substandard. They run *hot*, very,very *hot*. They, in my personal experience, have a high failure rate. Most importantly, for an extra 10-15 dollars, you can have a genuine Intel, or an AMD. Personally, you couldn't *pay* me to run a Cyrix processor in any of my machines. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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